Tiered retrieval of secured documents

Abstract

Approaches presented herein enable presenting, as an initial response to a search query from a user, a set of analytic summaries prior to initiating a document security protocol in a secured document environment. Each analytic summary represents a set or cluster of documents. A summary relevance value is calculated for each analytic summary and a document relevance value is calculated for each individual document. Analytic summaries are presented to the user while each document within each analytic summary are prioritized for a security review based on its related summary relevance value and document relevance value. Based on the priorities, a security review is initiated for the documents so that a highly relevant document within an analytic summary undergoes the security review before a less relevant document. Access to a particular document is granted to the user according to the security review of the document.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method for deriving access for a user to a document from a document collection, the method comprising:
 automatically generating, in response to a search query, a set of analytic summaries, wherein each analytic summary includes of a set of documents from the document collection; 
 calculating a summary relevance value for each analytic summary; 
 presenting, to the user on a display, each analytics summary together with associated documents, the set of analytics summaries being ordered according to corresponding relevance summary values; and 
 initiating, once the analytics summaries and associated documents are presented, security reviews for the documents according to a predefined priority determined according to the related summary relevance values such that security reviews are completed faster for documents associated with higher ordered analytic summaries and higher ranked documents are made available for access by the user earlier than lower ranked documents. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising retrieving an analytics summary among the set of analytic summaries from a cache for presenting to the user. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising generating an analytics summary among the set of analytic summaries using a predefined search technique. 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising enabling each individual document for display to the user upon completion of the security review for the individual document, wherein every document is available for display in the set of analytics summaries after security reviews have been completed for all documents regardless of whether the user has security for any document being displayed. 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1 , wherein each analytic summary reflects a different definitional meaning of search terms in the search query, and
 wherein each document retrieved from the document collection in response to the search query is assigned to an analytic summary that has a definitional meaning that corresponds to a definitional meaning of the search terms in the document. 
 
     
     
       6. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising retrieving security credentials related to the user to be used in the security review. 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 obtaining a threshold value, 
 wherein only analytic summaries having a summary relevance value higher than the threshold value are displayed to the user, and 
 wherein each analytics summary includes a link to each document in the set of documents. 
 
     
     
       8. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable storage device that, when executed by a computer device, performs a method for deriving access for a user to a document from a document collection, the method comprising:
 identifying, in response to a search query, a set of documents from the document collection; 
 automatically generating, in response to the search query, a set of analytic summaries, wherein each analytic summary includes of a set of documents from the document collection; 
 calculating a relevance value for each document in the set of documents; 
 presenting, to the user on a display, each analytics summary together with associated documents, the set of analytics summaries being ordered according to corresponding relevance summary values; and 
 initiating, once the analytics summaries and associated documents are presented, security reviews for the documents according to a predefined priority determined according to the related summary relevance values such that security reviews are completed faster for documents associated with higher ordered analytic summaries and higher ranked documents are made available for access by the user earlier than lower ranked documents. 
 
     
     
       9. The computer program product of  claim 8 , the method further comprising retrieving the analytics summary among the set of analytic summaries from a cache for presenting to the user. 
     
     
       10. The computer program product of  claim 8 , further comprising generating an analytics summary among the set of analytic summaries using a predefined search technique. 
     
     
       11. The computer program product of  claim 8 , further comprising enabling each individual document for display to the user upon completion of the security review for the individual document, wherein every document is available for display in the set of analytics summaries after security reviews have been completed for all documents regardless of whether the user has security for any document being displayed. 
     
     
       12. The computer program product of  claim 8 ,
 wherein each analytic summary reflects a different definitional meaning of search terms in the search query, and 
 wherein each document retrieved from the document collection in response to the search query is assigned to an analytic summary that has a definitional meaning that corresponds to a definitional meaning of the search terms in the document. 
 
     
     
       13. The computer program product of  claim 8 , further comprising retrieving security credentials related to the user to be used in the security review. 
     
     
       14. The computer program product of  claim 8 , further comprising:
 obtaining a threshold value, 
 wherein only analytic summaries having a summary relevance value higher than the threshold value are displayed to the user, and 
 wherein each analytics summary includes a link to each document in the set of documents. 
 
     
     
       15. A system for deriving access for a user to a document from a document collection, comprising:
 a memory medium comprising instructions; 
 a bus coupled to the memory medium; and 
 a processor coupled to the bus that when executing the instructions causes the system to perform a method, comprising:
 identifying, in response to a search query, a set of documents from the document collection; 
 automatically generating, in response to the search query, a set of analytic summaries, wherein each analytic summary includes of a set of documents from the document collection; 
 calculating a relevance value for each document in the set of documents; 
 presenting, to the user on a display, each analytics summary together with associated documents, the set of analytics summaries being ordered according to corresponding relevance summary values; and 
 initiating, once the analytics summaries and associated documents are presented, security reviews for the documents according to a predefined priority determined according to the related summary relevance values such that security reviews are completed faster for documents associated with higher ordered analytic summaries and higher ranked documents are made available for access by the user earlier than lower ranked documents. 
 
 
     
     
       16. The system of  claim 15 , the method further comprising retrieving an analytics summary among the set of analytic summaries from a cache for presenting to the user. 
     
     
       17. The system of  claim 15 , further comprising generating an analytics summary among the set of analytic summaries using a predefined search technique. 
     
     
       18. The system of  claim 15 , further comprising enabling each individual document for display to the user upon completion of the security review for the individual document, wherein every document is available for display in the set of analytics summaries after security reviews have been completed for all documents regardless of whether the user has security for any document being displayed. 
     
     
       19. The system of  claim 15 , the method further comprising:
 obtaining a threshold value, 
 wherein only analytic summaries having a summary relevance value higher than the threshold value are displayed to the user. 
 
     
     
       20. The system of  claim 15 , the method further comprising retrieving security credentials related to the user to be used in the security review.